{ravelRy} R package

N/A

walkerkq/ravelRy

2020

• An Interface to the Ravelry API. Ravelry.com is an organizational tool for crocheters, knitters, spinners, and weavers. Retrieve pattern, yarn, author, and shop information by search or by a given id. Available on CRAN and Github.

Data Science Manager (current role)

Extend

Remote

2023 - 2021

• Promoted to manager at insurtech startup offering product protection and shipping insurance within 6 months.
• Built and managed team of five data scientists responsible for providing competitive and profitable deal pricing and revenue forecasting.
• Grew team responsibilities to include financial forecasting for core products and strategic initiatives, customer experience analytics, and product analytics.
• Delivered analytic insights to SVP and C-suite levels.

Lead Data Scientist

Extend

Remote

2021

• Launched partner pricing team, creating win- and margin-minded go-to-market pricing and opportunity analysis.
• Developed revenue forecasting model for evaluating sales opportunities. Worked cross-functionally to assess program economics, create attractive commercial offers, and win highly competitive deals.

Principal Data Scientist, Commercial Insights

Medtronic

Minneapolis, MN

2021 - 2020

• Served as first DS hire on a team charged with developing a full view of the Medtronic customer across four distinct companies and 30 operating units.
• Delivered an end-to-end model to predict accounts receivable customer credit risk.
• Developed a comparative method for assessing customer pricing across diverse business groups, and put it into action to identify opportunities where pricing was inconsistent due to siloed pricing practices.
• Provided ad hoc analysis and impact assessment for various strategy initiatives.

Data Scientist

Brandless

Minneapolis, MN

2020 - 2019

• Maintained data infrastructure and Airflow pipelines, creating complex queries and workflows to ingest, transform and store data at ecommerce startup Brandless.
• Designed workflow to regularly collect, modify and store news data for competitive analysis.
• Developed forecasting tool in Shiny to estimate unit sales and inform purchasing plan and project revenue on demand.
• Contributed to productionalized algorithms and machine learning models (user-based recommendations, NLP-driven customer service ticket labeler).

Data Analyst

Concordia College

Moorhead, MN

2019 - 2017

Project Manager/Analyst

Concordia College

Moorhead, MN

2017 - 2013

Marketing Manager

Drayton Enterprises

Fargo, ND

2013 - 2012

M.S., Applied Statistics

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND

2017

• Collaborated with admissions team to fit a logistic regression model on demographic, geodemographic and behavioral applicant data to assist in allocation of recruitment resources by assigning probability of enrollment to admitted students.

B.A., Psychology

Boston College

Boston, MA

2012